WHAT IS DEATH?
We are a spirit using a human body down here on earth to learn some life lessons. So for this time we take on the human characteristics until it is our time to leave or die. Some people believe in reincarnation some don’t. I am not here to debate that. I personally do believe in reincarnation from some very convincing facts.
Your spirit or higher self as some call it will always guide you in the right direction. That is your gut feeling. So even though you are here in this egotistical world you are still being quietly guided by YOU. YOU is spirit or higher self. So the best thing to do when you want to hear YOU is be still. Go quiet and you will here your inner voice.
As you travel through life you will come across different life lessons. For example; if you feel you have a pattern in dating the wrong guys then ending up alone. This is a life lesson that you will repeat until you learn from it and will not repeat the mistakes again. This can be over several lifetimes.
As we come to the end of a lifetime, we prepare for death or the crossing over of spirit. When my father passed over he was in the hospital. We all knew that it was going to happen so they gave us a private room where we can be together, my 2 sisters, my brother and myself. My mother had passed over 9 months prior. My father passed on his birthday. As his breathing started to get erratic we stood around his bed. Now I thought that the spirit would leave the body from the head. That was just my thinking. Well as we watched my father, suddenly his head went grey, and then slowly it went down the chest, the stomach and out the feet. His spirit literally stood up and walked away. Once that happened all breathing stopped. His breath i.e. spirit was gone.
In his lectures and books, Meister Eckhart Tolle teaches that there is no such thing as death. There is no such thing as death because the spirit never dies. I personally do not agree with that. What is death? Death is the act of the spirit leaving the body and seizing breath. The dictionary meaning: the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. The spirit lives on and never dies; just walks away; like my father’s spirit. Actually leaving all the pain and suffering behind in the now dead body.
So do I believe there is death? Yes
Then what exactly is death? The act of the spirit leaving the body and seizing breath .
And you live on in spirit for your next adventure.
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Namaste!
Donna
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I was perusing posts on GratitudeLog.com since I haven’t been on in a while, and I was feeling the difference. So one of my New Year’s resolutions was to get back to expressing gratitude everyday.
I came across the following post about following your heart where ever it takes you. If you feel in your heart this is the way to go then go. DO NOT let anyone steer you otherwise. It may be the right way, or it may be the wrong way. It may be the right way for you but the wrong way for everybody else. How will you ever know unless you try? Unless you try especially when all the masses are telling you to go the other way; their way. When everyone else is ridiculing you for always going ‘the wrong’ way than everybody else.
HEAVEN #4059 Follow Your Heart Where It Takes You, January 5, 2012
God said:
Know this. You may know better than someone else. Science can tell you that you are mistaken and that science knows better. And, yet, what is in your heart may be right and what other upright ones feel or believe may not be right, or it may, and yet everyone has to go by his own heart. No one has to go by yours. You have to go by yours and let others go by theirs.
You are not derelict to let others follow their hearts. You are not the sayer of another’s heart. You are the sayer of your own heart, and to your own heart, be true.
The whole world may think differently from you, and you may be right. There is comfort in numbers, but not always the truth. I do not want to say that you should not listen to others, yet you are not obligated to go by others no matter how learned they may be. Sometimes the most practical advice is simply not the best advice for you. No matter how well-meaning, advice may be off-track.
Unless you try something, how do you know? It is all right to be beholden to your own heart, not as a matter of principle, no, not at all. Your heart will tell you when to let go and when to hold on. Never hold on for the sake of holding on or to prove a point. Hold on when it is your destiny to hold on.
It is easy to be swayed by others, yet others do not always know what is right for themselves let alone for you.
What if men like Einstein and Columbus and Christ and Buddha had not listened to their own hearts? What would have been lost? Of course, I would have found another way, and, yet, it is possible to wonder what other treasures have been lost because someone followed the status quo rather than his or her own heart.
Remember, We are not talking about whim or fantasy or an ego jaunt. The point is that sometimes you have to follow your heart with or without encouragement. Your vision is not to be denied. Even if you are the only one who thinks as you may, you may be right. And I want to say, beloveds, so long as you follow your heart, your true heart, you can’t be wrong.
Even when your enterprise does not turn out as you would wish, no one has the right to say that you were wrong. You simply went down a certain road, and then you took another road. Is that wrong?
There are those who tell you to never-never give up as well, and, yet, only your heart can tell you. Or, you may like to think of it this way: that I will tell you when.
No matter what decision you make, the whole universe does not depend upon the enterprise you undertake. And so, decisions are up to you. Be captain of your own ship. A captain always wants to forge his ship ahead, and, yet, if he has to take another course, he turns his ship around and takes another course. Nothing wrong about that.
That which you believe in, believe in. And when you no longer believe in it, let it go. Results are not guaranteed, nor are results the making of you. If you are looking for the plaudits of the world, look again. Plaudits are not what they are cooked up to be.
Have an inkling why you make the choices you do, and make them. They are your choices to make. Do not always be led by others, no matter how well-meaning. Steer the rudder of your own heart.
It has been a long time since I was on GratitudeLog.com and the right post as always falls right in my lap. It is like a confirmation of my last 10 years; ” you were doing it right all along” !!
Namaste!!
Donna
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Note: Thank You Brenda McAleer for that great post!!
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Here is a fairly known tale, but I think it is always worth re-telling. It conveys a valuable message; No matter how tough things are, don’t give up. You just don’t know what lies around the corner…..!
A TRUE CHRISTMAS STORY.
Robert May was a short man, barely five feet in height. He was born in the early part of the last century, that is to say, the nineteen hundreds. (We have to change the way we tell the story now!)
Bullied at school, he was ridiculed and humiliated by other children because he was smaller than other boys of the same age. Even as he grew up, he was often mistaken for someone’s little brother.
When he left college he became employed as a copywriter with Montgomery Ward, the big Chicago mail order house. He married and in due course, his wife presented him with a daughter. Then when his little daughter was two years old, tragedy struck; his wife was diagnosed with a debilitating disease. She became bedridden and remained so until she died. Nearly everything he earned went on medication and doctor’s bills. Money was short and life was hard.
One evening in early December of 1938 and two years into his wife’s illness, his four-year-old daughter climbed onto his knee and asked, “Daddy, why isn’t Mummy like everybody else’s mummy?” It was a simple question, asked with childlike curiosity. But it struck a personal chord with Robert May.
His mind flashed back to his own childhood. He had often posed a similar question, “Why can’t I be tall, like the other kids?” The stigma attached to those who are different is hard to bear. Groping for something to say to give comfort to his daughter, he began to tell her a story. It was about someone else who was different, ridiculed, humiliated and excluded because of the difference.
Bob told the story in a humorous way, making it up as he went along; in the way that many fathers often do. His daughter laughed, giggled and clapped her hands as the misfit finally triumphed at the end. She then made him start all over again from the beginning and every night after that he had to repeat the story before she would go to sleep.
Because he had no money for fancy presents, Robert decided that he would put the story into book form. He had some artistic talent and he created illustrations. This was to be his daughter’s Christmas present. The book of the story that she loved so much. He converted the story into a poem.
On the night before Christmas Eve, he was persuaded to attend his office Christmas Party. He took the poem along and showed it to a colleague. The colleague was impressed and insisted that Robert read his poem aloud to everyone else at the party. Somewhat embarrassed by the attention, he took the small hand written volume from his pocket and began to read. At first the noisy group listened in laughter and amusement. But then became silent and after he finished, they broke into spontaneous applause.
Later, and feeling quite pleased with himself, he went home, wrapped the book in Christmas wrapping and placed it under the modest Christmas tree. To say that his daughter was pleased with her present would be an understatement. She loved it!
When Robert returned to work after the Holiday, he was summoned to the office of his head of department. He wanted to talk to Bob about his poem. It seemed that word had got out about his reading at the Christmas party. The Head of Marketing was looking for a promotional tool and wondered if Robert would be interested in having his poem published.
The following year, 1939, printed copies of the book were given to every child who visited the department stores of Montgomery Ward and it eventually became an international best seller, making Robert a rich man. His wife had unfortunately died during this time, but he was able to move from the small apartment and buy a big house. He was at last able to provide handsomely for his growing daughter.
The story is not quite over. In 1947, songwriter Johnny Marks used the theme of Robert’s poem for a song. He showed the song to a famous film star of the day, Gene Autry, ‘The Singing Cowboy’. Autry recorded the song and it became a world-wide number one hit. You may just remember it. The first line goes….”Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose…..!”
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And with that I bid you and yours a very Merry Christmas!!
Donna
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We convince ourselves that life
will be better after we get married,
have a baby, then another.
Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough
and we’ll be more content when they are.
After that we’re frustrated that we
have teenagers to deal with,
we will certainly be happy
when they are out of that stage.
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We tell ourselves that our life will be complete
when our spouse gets his or her act together,
when we get a nicer car,
are able to go on a nice vacation,
when we retire.
The truth is there’s no better time
to be happy than right now.
If not now, when?
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Your life will always be filled with challenges.
It’s best to admit this to yourself
and decide to be happy anyway.
One of my favorite quotes comes
from Alfred D Souza.
He said, “For a long time it had seemed
to me that life was about to begin -real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be gotten through first,
some unfinished business,
time still to be served,
a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life.”
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This perspective has helped me to see
that there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way,
so, treasure every moment that you have.
And treasure it more because you shared it
with someone special,
special enough to spend your time…
and remember that time waits for no one.
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So stop waiting until you finish school,
until you go back to school,
until you lose ten pounds,
until you gain ten pounds,
until you have kids,
until your kids leave the house,
until you start work,
until you retire,
until you get married,
until you get divorced,
until Friday night,
until Sunday morning,
until you get a new car or home,
until your car or home is paid off,
until spring, until summer,
until fall, until winter,
until you are off welfare,
until the first or fifteenth,
until your song comes on,
until you’ve had a drink,
until you’ve sobered up,
until you die, until you are born again
to decide that there is no better time
than right now to be happy…
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Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So, Work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt and
Dance Like no one’s watching.
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~Author Unknown~
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Namaste!
Donna
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For those of you who would like to take part in the World Peace Card Meditations, here is the recent email from William Rand with all the particulars. As always, I will have the future dates listed on the sideboard for your reference.
World Peace Card Meditations
Wednesday, December 14, 7:30pm
(based on local time in your time zone)
Future Dates
Wednesday – Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 11, May 9 at 7:30pm
You are invited to take part in the next World Peace Card Meditations. Please mark your calendar and forward this email to all your friends.
Thanks for Your Help!
Because so many of you forwarded this email to your friends, there have been over 261,000 downloads of the World Peace Cards. This is a tremendous increase in the number of people using the cards. So far the total number of World Peace Card sets downloaded, received from our free offer and from our magazine has been more than 276,000! I hope you have been using your peace cards as their use brings blessings to the world as well as to you.
The next World Peace Card group meditation has been scheduled for Wednesday, December 14 at 7:30pm. This is local time in your time zone. This method has been chosen because of the special effect it produces. As people meditate in each successive time zone the energy builds like a wave which gets stronger and stronger as it circles the planet. Because of the higher dimensional nature of consciousness, the energy of peace will be transmitted for a full 24 hours and continue long after this.
Reports from those who took part in the previous meditations indicate many had powerful spiritual experiences. As they united with those taking part in the meditation a feeling of peace developed within that stayed with each for a long time. Some saw beautiful golden light surrounding the planet and others felt that a web of fear was dissipating and being replaced with trust in others and for our future.
All those who have received the cards are being asked to meditate on world peace at this time. By taking part in this group meditation, you’ll be joining thousands of people who will be using the cards to bring peace to the world. By joining together, the effect we have will be greatly multiplied. This powerful experience and will help shift the vibration of our wonderful planet into a higher state of consciousness. As you use the cards to meditate on world peace, you will be a beacon through which peace will spread around the planet which will have a positive uplifting effect on all people.
Please set aside this time to meditate with the cards. The suggested meditation period is 15 minutes, but of course you can meditate longer if you’d like to. The technique I’d like you to use is based on allowing yourself to be a beacon of peace. The World Peace Cards hold the vibration of the World Peace Grids which have been placed at spiritually significant locations and are relay stations for higher consciousness. By simply opening to their energy, you’ll become a channel for their love and peace which will flow through you to all the people on Earth. To do this, hold the cards in your hands or place them in front of you. Then simply meditate on peace.
We are entering a new era. Our entire planet including all the people and living things are moving into a place where it will be much easier to solve our problems and to create peace, prosperity and happiness for everyone. The World Peace Card meditation will quicken this process, making it easier for people to experience this new quality of higher consciousness and will provide great benefit for all people. Since this benefit will be flowing through you out to everyone on the planet, you’ll be blessed by this experience as well.
Many have received the cards in the mail or in the Reiki News Magazine while others have downloaded them from our website. If you would like additional copies of the cards, please download them using this link and print as many copies as you can use. Please feel free to give them to your friends. Also, forward this email to anyone you feel would like to take part in the meditation.
World Peace Card Download
Additional World Peace Cards
http://www.reiki.org/WPCM.html
Note: This is a larger file and it may take several
minutes for it to open, so please be patient.
When printing the cards from this file, print page 2 first, then place this page in your printer and print the image of the peace grids on the back.
Thank you for taking part in this group meditation.
Sincerely,
William Lee Rand
The International Center for Reiki Training
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Namaste!
Donna
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